By Admin 
Team India has also tightened its grip on the second Test being played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. On the second day of the second test, the Indian team declared its first innings at 518 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill scored centuries for India. After this, Ravindra Jadeja’s spin started and the top order of West Indies collapsed. After the end of the third day’s play, Jadeja made a big statement regarding the pitch.
Ravindra Jadeja’s ball was spinning a lot on the third day of the second test. It seemed that the pitch was helpful for the spinners, but such a scenario was not seen during the West Indies innings. Jadeja took 3 wickets in the last session on the third day of the second test. After the end of the day’s play, Jadeja said that the Indian team had not asked for a turning pitch.
After the end of the third day’s play, Ravindra Jadeja said, “I am not surprised because we had only asked for slow turning pitches. We had not asked for a ‘rank turner’ (a pitch completely supporting the spinners). Our expectation was that as the game progressed, the pitch would start turning slowly. We have to work hard, bowl well throughout the innings, only then we will be able to get them out. We will keep doing that. And hopefully it will give good results.”
Jadeja feels that due to the slow nature of the pitch and the low speed of the balls on the surface, it is becoming easier for the batsmen to play on the backfoot. He said, “The bounce is low and there is not much turn. You have to use your shoulders more. Not every ball is taking turn, so you have to work a little hard. If we break this current partnership, it will be easy because there is not much depth in their batting.”
This was how the third day of Delhi Test was
By the end of the second day’s play, West Indies had scored 140 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. West Indies is still 378 runs behind India in the first innings. Team India had declared the first innings on the score of 518, in response to which the West Indies team struggled and reached the score of 140. The Caribbean team still has to score 179 more runs to save the follow-on. On the second day, Indian captain Shubman Gill also dominated, who broke many records by playing an inning of 129 runs.
On the second day, the Indian team continued its innings with a score of 318/2. By the end of the first day’s play, Jaiswal had scored 173 runs, but he was run out after scoring 2 runs on the second day. Jaiswal missed scoring the third double century of his Test career.